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After a year off, the annual event kicks off in Las Vegas with 217 wineries from 15 countries and more than 1,000 attendees. Next stops: D.C. and Chicago

The death of the disgraced financier Bernie Madoff on Wednesday didn't stir much emotion in his most well-known victim in New Jersey.  "I'm not saying kaddish," Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg said, referring to the Jewish mourning prayer. "That's my reaction."  Weinberg, of Teaneck, had her life savings wiped out in Madoff's infamous Ponzi scheme in 2008. Like millions of Americans at the time, she hadn't even known who Madoff was until his multibillion-dollar scheme, the largest in history, became public.  Weinberg, who is retiring next year after three decades in the Legisl...

Spread the love This June, Sotheby’s will be auctioning off three of the greatest rarities in the stamp and coin field. The 1933 Double Eagle $20 gold coin, the unique British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta, and the unique Inverted Jenny 1918 Plate Block. This is truly an incredible offering from a single collector to have captured three of the rarest and most unique collectibles in history. It is a bit unusual that a unique stamp from a less than the mainstream region has emerged as the rarest and sole-surviving example of the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta from 1856. It was last sold i...